Has AT&T sold out of its pre-order stock of the Nokia Lumia 900?

0.phoneArenaposted on31 Mar 2012, 19:08

According to a source for WMPoweruser, AT&T has already sold all of its pre-order inventory for the Nokia Lumia 900 in about a day; what this means for orders placed after the launch date of April 8th is unknown at the moment...

Regardless of the number of pre-order stock on hand. The operative answer here is that "...AT&T has already sold all of its pre-order..." Lets say that again, AT&T has sold "ALL" of its pre-order Nokia Lumia 900s. That's the great news Nokia and MS and we as Windows supporters should be very happy to hear! Awesome!

I think the point Whodaboss was trying to make was that irregardless of how many pre-order units were available, this means that the Lumia 900 was more popular than AT&T thought it would be. Usually carriers try to carry as many pre-order units as they think will be enough to supply the initial demand, but in this case they were sold out of the amount they thought would be enough. So it doesn't really matter if the amount of units was 1,000 or 1,000,000. The fact that AT&T and/or Nokia only thought they needed to supply whatever amount and that there were more sales than expected is good news. I agree with Whodaboss that this could possibly be good news for Nokia and WindowsPhone.

correct. ATT projects what they think the demand will be and they order the product accordingly. No matter what they had in stock, the orders were higher than expected, which is always a good thing. Lets just hope they dont pull an Apple and constantly go out of stock to keep demand artificially inflated.

Oh, I get that entirely... Not arguing that point at all. Consumer interest is definitely good news for both Nokia and Windows Phone. And good news for competition in the industry as a whole.
The problem still remains that without a number released for how much pre-order stock there was we can't know whether or not AT&T just underestimated that interest or if we're looking at some new Tickle Me Elmo craze.
If AT&T underestimated consumer interest then it's easy for the media/analysts to overestimate consumer interest without the number sold itself.
If you were being cryptically told some championship sports team were coming to your party, wouldn't you want to know if you were getting the winners of the World Series, a minor league team, or the local high school team?

I think Dr. Phil & Remixfa explained it well. As for being a fanboy ok I'm guilty, guilty as charged. But here's the rub, I don't ever read Android or iOS articles. I don't ever visit those articles to express my opinion for those devices because I'm not impressed or interested with them. Why, because I have owned them and they did not live up to my expectations.

Also, I realize there are those who own and love Android and iOS devices and that's their perogative. I'm only interested in the upcoming possibilities of WP and their success (hopefully). but I don't have to down play or bad mouth Android or iOS to make me feel good or try to put someone else down for their choices.

As I've written many times before if you are an Android, iOS, BADA, (name your OS) fan, that's great enjoy your OS of choice but why do people have to put down an OS they don't even use or have never used? Now, if someone actually used WP OS and stated hey, I didn't like it because it didn't do this or that, therefore I prefer another OS I can respect that. But just blatant hating on something for the sake of hating I'm like, what's the point.

My little peevish outburst wasn't meant to be directed at you, Whodaboss. Just a little crankiness during a long shift on the weekend directed at the people who are quick to jump to negatives. (Not that thumbs up or down even matter.) [Like I said, cranky moment. GF's even set up a 'douche jar' now to put a dollar in. :-/ ]

I agree entirely with Dr.Phil & remixfa (and everyone else) about it being a good thing, but I don't think that detracts from my point made in post #24. The number has significance.

Roscuthiii, not that most of us don't get your point. Yes, believe me I would luv to hear Nokia sold 1M phones. But we WP supporters knows that might not be realistic at this moment. We are just looking at the positives and this news is positive. It tells those who support WP there are people out there who are wanting WP devices. So many people put down WP OS for petty reasons. I know there's a lot of people who just plain dont like Microsoft so that plays a big role in the negativity.

But I got to tell you I think the OS is awesome!!! It may not be for everyone but the smoothness, and thus far it has NEVER frozen up or shutdown after 5 months owning the HTC Radar. Sure the App store may not have as many apps as iTunes or Android but it has enough apps for my purposes. I just wish the "hero" phones will come to TMo.

Yep, so far most things are looking pretty good about the OS. If I weren't on contract with Verizon and still grandfathered into unlimited data I'd definitely be looking into it.
Considering how late into the game Verizon gets with new phones perhaps they'll have a compelling offering when my contract's up.
Here's to hoping!

Thanks for caring or else you would not have wasted your time to read or even bother to post. But yes, this phone should be released to all carriers!

And for the record it's the carriers that determines which phones they want to carry or not carry not the phone maker. Also, I don't believe Verizon is interested in any more WP7 devices. They are waiting for WP8 that's why phone makers aren't knocking down their doors with any new WP7 devices.

who gives a crap about customization when it takes 5 minutes to get there. when lte becomes more mainstream. starting with os6 and iphone 5. most if not all phones that do not fit the lte banner will be pretty much pointless

Hey... you guys know that walmart price matches right? Its on their commercial. Id go in the store and demand the same price. False advertisement if they dont. Id complain and make a ruckus. Possibly hire an attorney. My life is too busy for false advertisements ;)

price matching comes with caveats. Most of the time its price matching other physical stores. Online doesnt always count towards it since online tends to be cheapest. But, hey, there is no harm in trying.

How many phones were available for pre order? Considering your sources are suggesting they sold out within a day or two, its either dubious (given the current small market share of wp) or a surprise hit. Either way id expect you to check into it prior to publishing, rather than just regurgitating a claim.

I think if I was on ATT Id get it just to support Microsoft and their Mobile OS. I think it will blow up and be the next best thing.

Heres why... Android is really bugging people with their updates and pretty much just lets everyone do whatever the hell they want. Like HTC, Moto, etc...
I dont really like to support Apple because the company thinks they invented mobile phones and sue the crap out of anyone even if it might have the same damn shape thats been around for decades or something.

I really hope Microsoft has a streamlined user experience and all of the phones are up to date that can support the software like their PCs.

Folks Can anyone confirm that AT and T will have special rights to be the First to sell the Lumia 900 for I think for 45 to 90 days and then it can be sold by other Carriers I hope this is true because Maybe Verizon will get some smarts and sell their Customers the Nokia Lumia 900 CDMA model Verizon is a more Popular cell phone network than AT and T Verizon would sell so many Nokia 900's it would make your head spin it is bad for Verizon to let the opportunity slip by to sell a really good Windows smart phone Verizon could have set what is known as Customer preorder service where a Verizon customer orders a Verizon CDMA Nokia Lumia 900 in the store or online and Verizon buys the Phones from Nokia and has it shipped to the customer for them to take it to be activated. This way they donot have a lot of inventory of unsold phones.
Verizon customers like myself want Justice we want a Nokia 900 damn looks like I have to get off Verizon to get what I want and that is not good business for Verizon but makes AT and T and others who sell The Nokia 900 happy to make some money

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